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Board of Directors

  • Nikita Jackson
    Nikita Jackson
    CHWSupervisor North Central Family Medicine (803)325-7744
    Chair
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  • Maria Martin
    Maria Martin, MSW-CCHW
    Executive Director (803)394-4299
    Vice Chair
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  • Reeshemah Mckelvey
    CHWAllySupervisor Access Health Tri-County Network (843)437-6788
    Treasurer
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  • Ray Jackson
    Ray Jackson
    CHW Access Health Greenwood (864)941-6575
    Member
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  • Amanda Hiers
    Amanda Hiers
    Director, Community Health & Innovation South Carolina Hospital Association (803)917-9586
    Member
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  • Angel Bourdon
    Angel Bourdon
    Director, Innovations South Carolina Hospital Association (803)960-8017
    Secretary
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  • Wilma Jackson Moore
    Wilma Jackson Moore
    Communications Director of Highland Neighborhood Association (864)586-9582
    Member
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  • Audrey McCrary-Quarles
    Professor/Director - CHWTP/Co-Director- Health Education Research Training Center South Carolina State University Health Equity Research and Training Center (HERT-C) (803)516-4818
    Member
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  • Tiara Scott, CCHW
    Community Health Manager (843)598-0792
    Member
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  • Romaine Stephens
    Romaine Stephens, Community Health Worker
    CHW SCORH-Family Solutions (803)747-3894
    Member
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Ex Officio Board Members

Ex Officio Board Members are individuals who bring experience, insight or a particular perspective to discussions.
They are elected annually by the SCCHWA Board and are granted voice, but no vote.
  • Lillie Fox, Certified Community Health Worker, Chair of Board of Director of NACHW, NACHW Board...
    CHW , Outreach Manager, CHW Program Manager (843)495-0777
    CCHW
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  • Julie Smithwick, CCHW, LMSW
    Executive Director, Center for Community Health Alignment CCHA-CHWI (803)312-1723
    CCHW
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  • Darin Thomas
    Ally Prisma Health (864)894-9204
    CHW Ally
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  • Tracy Golden
    Tracy Golden, CCE, Community Doula
    Program Manager Family Solutions SCORH-Family Solutions (803)707-8463
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  • Joseph Kyle
    Joseph Kyle
    Ally (803)807-8396
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Credentialing Council

  • Julie Smithwick, CCHW, LMSW
    Executive Director, Center for Community Health Alignment CCHA-CHWI
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  • Lillie Fox, Certified Community Health Worker, Chair of Board of Director of NACHW, NACHW Board...
    CHW , Outreach Manager, CHW Program Manager
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  • Barbara Dendy, CCHW, CPSS
    CPSS Prisma Health - Access Health Upstate
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  • Victoria Johnson
    Victoria Johnson, MHS , CHW
    Health Careers Program Coordinator
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  • Bruce Wright
    CHWSupervisor Mental Health First Aid Instructor (DHEC Statewide) SCDHEC
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  • Suzanne Sanders, MPH, MCHES
    Director of Community Engagement SCDHEC
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  • Marek Calhoun
    Marek Calhoun
    Director of Social and Community Services CareSouth Carolina
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  • Terri Jowers
    Terri Jowers
    Executive Director, SCCHWA South Carolina Community Health Worker Association
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  • Lena Bretous
    Healthy Blue
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  • Rick Foster
    SRVP SCHA
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SCCHWA Staff

  • Terri Jowers
    Terri Jowers
    Executive Director, SCCHWA South Carolina Community Health Worker Association (706)373-8398
    Interim Executive Director
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  • Rebekah Shilling
    Rebekah Shilling, Community Health Worker III, Lactation Counselor, Child Passenger Safety...
    Program Manager South Carolina Community Health Worker Association (803)250-7027
    Project Coordinator
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  • Rashad Paige
    Rashad Paige
    CHW/ Special Projects South Carolina Community Health Worker Association (973)413-7664
    Special Projects
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